For Real, a Natural History of Misinformation
It’s not just humans who suffer from leading one another astray. So do fish, flies and even bacteria.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Named TIME’s 2025 Entertainer of the Year
Leonardo DiCaprio has been named TIME’s 2025 Entertainer of the Year, the magazine’s annual distinction recognizing an artist whose risk-taking originals, box-office muscle, and cultural footprint defined the past twelve months. The announcement arrives on the heels of DiCaprio’s latest collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, the offbeat father-daughter dramedy One Battle After Another, in…
Take a swing? Two Buss brothers consider investing in MLB’s Athletics
Could two members of the Buss family add some green and gold to their purple and gold? Joey and Jesse Buss, fired last month as Lakers executives, have explored pursuing an ownership stake in baseball’s Athletics, according to two people familiar with the discussions but not authorized to speak publicly about them. The discussions were…
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts.
Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds
December 9, 2025 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds A major new study lays out plans for crewed missions to Mars, with the search for extraterrestrial life being a top priority By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron A. Martin UW…
Australia’s social media ban takes effect
On Wednesday morning, local time, over one million Australian children discovered their social media accounts had vanished. And it may not be long before kids in other countries find themselves in a similar predicament. Under the new law, which was approved late last year, no one under the age of 16 in Australia will be…
VANESSA BRYANT CELEBRATES DAUGHTER BIANKA’S NINTH BIRTHDAY WITH SWEET PHOTO
Happy Birthday, Bianka “BB” Bryant! The daughter of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant turned nine years old on December 5th and her mom celebrated the day with a sweet photo on Instagram. The portrait, taken by Kusha Alagband Photography, shows Vanessa in a white sweater dress while Bianka sits beside her in a princess-style dress. It’s…
Sources – Dodgers, ex-Mets closer Edwin Diaz reach 3-year deal
The Los Angeles Dodgers got the best closer on the free agent market Tuesday, reaching a three-year, $69 million deal with former New York Mets reliever Edwin Diaz, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jorge Castillo on Tuesday. The deal by the Dodgers, who were targeting bullpen help this winter, set an average annual value…
Canada’s Ambassador to U.S., Who Also Led Trade Talks, to Leave Post
Kirsten Hillman, who came to Washington during the first Trump administration, had already extended her tenure once.
Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourful as birds
Illustration of a sauropod, with inset showing pigmented structures in the skin as seen with an electron microscope Tess Gallagher Microscopic structures seen in the fossilised skin of a sauropod suggest that these giant dinosaurs may have been as brightly coloured as some birds. Tess Gallagher at the University of Bristol, UK, and her colleagues…